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(a) Including patients on leave.
* Proved after admission not to be smallpox.
Planning and development
I. Larger building works—The final stage of the reconstruction of the NorthEastern
Hospital, comprising the erection of four general ward blocks and a staff
changing block, was completed in November.
The provision of a new nurses' home at Grove Park Hospital was completed
and the adaptation as patients' accommodation of staff blocks C and L commenced.
The improvement of the sanitary annexes of the patients' blocks at this hospital was
continued.
The modernisation of the patients' accommodation at High Wood Hospital for
Children was advanced a further stage by the commencement of work on block
"Firs 5."
The construction of two isolation blocks and staff quarters at the Brook
Hospital was well advanced.
Work on the provision of two isolation blocks, additional staff accommodation,
receiving rooms and operating theatre at Joyce Green Hospital was begun.
The scheme of improvements at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, incorporating
the extension of the laundry, the provision of new artisans' workshops and of storage
accommodation, was completed.
A scheme for the provision of balcony accommodation for patients and of
accommodation for sick staff at Colindale Hospital was approved.
Plans were approved of a new nurses' home at the Eastern Hospital.
A scheme for improving the farm buildings at Joyce Green Hospital was
approved.
The provision of a waiting room and recreation accommodation at Heatherwood
Hospital was commenced.
The standard of fighting in staff bedrooms generally was improved.
II. Other works—Many other important and minor building and improvement
works were dealt with.